The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-30

and Scientists = They Acknowl-
edge the Wonderful Results, but
Cannot Account for Them.
The following letter, published in
1882, has occasioned much COM
ment and investigation by physi-
clans and scientific men. It was
written by an old and reliable
practitioner residing in Missouri
The report is known as
CASE 40. 90.
al have a very interesting patient in
! the person of a young girl who was
suffering from the effects of entirely
suppressed menses. Her father is a
wealthy farmer living q few miles from
/ this place. took charge cf the daugh-
ter in 1878, believing that her troubles
would readily yield to the usual treat
ment. Finding them so obstinate as
to yield to none of the ordinary RENE
dies, by my advice her father took her
! to two celebrated physicians in ST.
/ Louis; but, after treating her two
months, she returned home in no re-
i spect improved. At this time she was
almost blind. When she attempted to
concentrate her sight on any object it
would be at first all darkness, then ten
/ thousand stars of every color would
appear, but she could distinguish
hardly anything. Her nervous system
was all upset, and she was unable to
! sleep more than five minutes at time.
/ She suffered all the pains and aches
/ imaginable. At times a wavering of
her mind was indicated and [ feared
/ her intellect was about to be unseated.
Without my knowledge, her father
| commenced giving her 'McElree's
| Wine of Cardui,' which had been
| highly recommended to him by some
one. She had been taking it only a
week when l saw her, and was rejoiced
/ to find her symptoms greatly i'm
proved. Her father then told me what
| he was giving her. I examined the
bottle of Wine, and believing no harm
would result from its use I advised the
| continuance of the regular doses daily
L am greatly opposed to the use of
Patent Medicines but when three
weeks later found this young lady
able to read ordinary print without in
/ convenience, able to sleep soundIy ten
! hours out of twenty-four, free from
| pain, and had had a return of men
| stTual flow, ] became convinced that
! McElree's Wine of Cardui' was an as
tonishing remedy, whatever it might
| contain. | write this hoping that your
Eules will allow you to send me the
/ formula for making the medicine, so
that [ may know in what cases to pre-
/ scribe it."
The question suggested to ply
sicians and scientific men by this
case, and thousands of Others
equally remarkable, was not as to
the wonderful value of this aston
ishing remedy, which was acknowl-
edged by every one of them, but
what were its remedial elements :?
To the thousands of inquiries Of
this kind the Chattanooga Medicine
Company could return but one
reply
I'VE DO NOT KNOW"
The following is an extract from
the circular letter that they pre-
pared and mailed in reply to the
many thousands of inquiries that
they received:
Almost universally the medical pro-
| fession recommend vaccination as
preventive of smallpox. Is there one
of them who can tell what constituent
element of Bovine Virus causes the
phenomena? They only know the eff
feet by repeated experiment.
We searched for twelve months and
treated every case of menstrual de-
rangement that we could discover free
of charge in case we were unsuccessful
in accomplishing a cure, to satisfy our
selves as to the efficacy of McElree's
Wine of Cardui. OF about seven
thousand cases thus treated, over six
thousand five hundred were cured.
The reports received from these cases
indicated that the wine was an aston
| ishing tonic, as we'll as an emmena-
gOgue. While its action was magical
as regarded any arrangements of the
menstrual organs, it caused invalids to
gain strength and vitality, purified the
blood, increased their flesh, sometimes
twenty hounds in a few weeks, and
literally caused them to ''shout for
Joy" Ladies who had become con-
firmed invalids were restored to robust
health in a comparatively short time.
Observing these results which have
been made known in hundreds of let
ters from grateful invalids, we no Ion
ger care to inquire HOiU the wine ac-
60 lplishes its work. Not Il single per-
o. has reported any deleterious effect
+ ON its use. 1t is "poweTless for harm,
/ ut giant for good"
Whether the astonishing cures of
menstrual arrangements come from its
power to strengthen the functions of
the body, or whether its action il direct
on the menstrual organs, we do not
venture an opinion. The cures are
established fncts, and it viii be only
the foolish invalid or physician who
vii! refuse to use the sure relief we
otter, because we are unable to tell how
we accomplish the result.
The course adopted by some ply
sicians who use the Wine of Cardui
in their practice is to write a pre-
scription couched in Latin, which
instructs the druggist to put the
Wine in a plain bottle, labelled
with written directions. For this
prescription the doctor gets fee of
s100 or $500, as the case may be,
and the druggist fifty cents.
The patient gets for $50 or 81. so
about one-fourth as much Of the
Wine as could be bought from the
same druggist for one dollar, if he
went to him and asked for a bottle
of McElree's Wine of Cardui, with
out the prescription. 1t would he
well for ladies to procure from their
druggist, or from the Chattanooga
Medicine Company, of Chattanooga.